Decades
1950s Consumerism Move to suburbs and white flight Advertising Cult of domesticity Birth of rock and roll Civil Rights Sputnik! McCarthyism
Polio ends! Jonas Salk
1950s Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower
1960s “High 60s”Cold War (U2 Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis)VietnamCountercultureContinuation of Civil Rights MovementWomen’s Rights movementBritish invasion
Presidents: JFK, LBJhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1PbgeBoQ4
Betty Friedan and the women’s movement It is easier to live through
someone else than to become complete yourself.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all
I Have a Dream
Hippies
Woodstock
British Invasion
American Literature Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac “The only people for me are
the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
1968!MLK assassinatedRFK assassinatedAltamont concert End of the hippies?!?!
1970sEnvironmental CrisisGas CrisisContinuation of Vietnam
Presidents Nixon, Ford
Watergate
Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Energy Crisis